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...unpretty will it get? "Character dominates in voters' minds," says Bush campaign manager Robert Teeter; our job, says Bond, is to "remind" voters that it does. For the most part, the "worst of Clinton" will be left for the press to reiterate and for the surrogate salons (the radio call-in shows) to elaborate. Such restraint does not preclude "man-in-the-street spots," cautions Republican consultant Roger Stone. "Ford almost won in '76 with a series of TV ads that had 'regular people' saying, 'There's just something about Carter that bothers me' and 'He seems so wishy-washy...
...Ronald Reagan in California two weeks ago. Backbiting and finger pointing are rife. Bush's speeches, never memorable in good days, now range from disjointed to enigmatic, bouncing randomly from Cuban independence to the budget deal to trade issues, and leaving many listeners scratching their head. Campaign chairman Bob Teeter, under fire from colleagues for keeping too much to himself, is worried that Bush might post his worst showing in Teeter's home state of Michigan in the March 17 primary. If Bush's normally even-tempered press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, is any guide, fuses at Bush Central are short...
...Teeter, the 1992 campaign is shaping up like a recurring nightmare. It was 16 years ago that Teeter, serving as Gerald Ford's campaign pollster, watched while the incumbent Republican President came under relentless attack from a more conservative Ronald Reagan. Although Ford eventually won the nomination, he was badly damaged by the intramural fight and went on to lose a close general election to Jimmy Carter...
Bush, by contrast, is taking no chances. Under Teeter's guidance he has moved quickly to polish his conservative credentials by coming full circle on taxes and soliciting the resignation of National Endowment for the Arts Chairman John Frohnmayer after Buchanan demanded his head. Bush denied that a five-day swing through seven Southern states last week was beginning to make him appear panicked and frantic. "I've thought about that, and I've concluded it doesn't. What I want to do is look like we're not taking anything for granted." But the same day, Bush suddenly...
...Teeter may not be the only Bush operative having flashbacks to 1976. Secretary of State James Baker was Ford's campaign manager; Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney was Ford's chief of staff -- and both men may want to run in 1996 as well. (Bush, whom Ford considered briefly as a possible Vice President in 1974, largely sat out the '76 race as CIA director...